Hello,

   I am trying to develop an interface to view an internal knowledge base.  One feature I would like to add is a "Generate E-Mail" button which would automatically open an e-mail message a populate it with the title and the article from the knowledge base.   Each KBase item contains a title and article where the article contains HTML formatting.  So far, I have used a client-side JavaScript block to perform this task along with an HTML control.

i.e.
<INPUT onclick=GenerateEMail() type=button value="Generate E-mail" name=btnEmail />
...
function GenerateEMail()
{
   oDiv = document.all.pnlArticle;
   oDiv.contentEditable = 'true';
   if (oDiv.innerHTML != '')
    {
     subject = escape(document.frmKBase.lstTitle.options[document.frmKBase.lstTitle.selectedIndex].text);
     var controlRange;
     if (document.body.createControlRange)
     {
         controlRange = document.body.createControlRange();
         controlRange.addElement(oDiv);
         controlRange.execCommand('Copy');
         oWin = window.open('mailto:somebody@nowere.com?subject='+ subject);
     }
     oDiv.contentEditable = 'false';
   }
   else
   {
     alert('Please select an article!');
   }

I use the copy command to the clipboard so that the HTML formatting is not lost.  The problem with this method is that you need to perform a paste when the e-mail message window opens up.

Is there a way to have the article pasted automatically?

Is there a way of doing this all in ASP.NET?

TIA